Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-02-09
MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
TO
Mr.. WILLIE CLUvERICS
THE AUTHOR,
PHILIP LEIGH.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS STORY.


The author of the romance makes Lillian
Madison get acquainted with one Monroe
Parker At camp-meeting. Parker is re-
like Tommie Cluverius. Chow
like Cousin Tommie was her first thought
when introduced to him." They marry
secretly ''because his father was million
aire, and had loveless but ambitious mar
riage in view for him, his only son. He
soon deserted her, and she went to Mrs.
Dickinson to teach. Temmie learns what
has been done, and chivalrously undertakes
to befriend her. He meets her in Rich
mond to assist her in getting a home for the
occasion. Out walking Lillian meets her
husband disguised as ''the old man :"
Throwing off his disguise he goes with Lii
liam TO all the places where Lillian was said
to have been seen with Cluverius by the
but he will not claim his wife,
and leaves her again. So she resolves to
go to the Dunstans and beg them to care
for her. Tommie goes with her and leaves
her near Dunstan's, and that was the last
he ever saw of her. Her heart failed her
and she did not enter the Dunstan house;
but after stopping in front of the house,
laid her shawl on the
palings aud went off and left it.
SHE MEETS HER MURDERER.
She walks on until she meets a Jim Lew
is, who knocks her down and takes her
satchel away from her.. 'tHe had been
used to throw sacks of grain in the old
he threw that girl into the water with the
arm of 4 Hercules. She sank with hol-
low plunge that sounded in that lonely
,1ao In,,d nd OF TO J,a
that it filed his guilty soul with unuttera-
BILE horror. And then the awful silence
that came after that plunge. He turned to
fly and saw a black, shapeless thing lying
there. What was it? 1t filled him with
fear, bat at last he saw it was the dead
girls hat. 1t would never do to leave it
there. So he took it up and fled from the
spot, buI as he was running and looking be-
hind him fearing the dead girl with fear
that froZe his very heart her hand bag
What WAS il? He had not time to look
yerius had provided her with but money
stop to look for anything and that murder
ed girl so near"
Then lie distributes her clothing. The
AOIlo OuO VI uCl Jag. OIufolitS
goes to Mozart Hall, and reaches there as
see him ut the Mozart, and told her moth
er thai lght When she returned home tina
Tommie Ciuverius was at the Mozart.
Lewis gees to New York. Stung by re-
morse, lio writes letter to the chief of po-
lice confesslng the crime. Then he kills
himself.
DEATH OF THE sO-CALLED HUSBAND.
Monroe Parker also flies to New York,
where he dies-but before so doing makes
this confession:
"WeIi," said the dying man, 81 am the
man calling himself Monroe Parker, and 1
was at hat camp-meeting with Lillian
Madison, and betrayed her by false
marriage, for / have wife and child living
in Germany. l deceived the poor girl; my
love fer her was guilty love, but hers for
me was pure, and she was pure woman
pure as The angels are. The marriage cere-
mony between US took place in Washing
ton city, and we lived together as man and
wife three weeks in Fairfax county. You
see I wanted to be secret about it; and as
we'll as | had laid my plans, a letter found
it's way Ia me from my wife in Germany
threatening to come TO America, and / be-
came alarmed and told Lillian my father
was dying, an6 SO parted with her, as she
thought, for u short time, but thought
forever. | saw her. though, in Richmond
on the 18th of March, and / went with her
to all the places where Cluverius had been
traced with her. She fancied me like Gu
yerins, and she called me Cousin Tommie
and l. having much to fear from my wife,
encouraged her to call me Cousin Tom
mic | swear had no other motive.''
''The watch-key found at the reservoir. :"
Joel swore he mended it for Cluverius
Joel never saw that watch-key. 81 gave
it to Lillian myself. 1t was an old German
watch-key. Cluverius killed Lillian Madi-
son, tLough-kiled her to save the honor
of his family. l attended the trial every
day. and heard all the evidence-he GER
tainly killed her. / was the old man at
the American Hotel, and l saw Cluverius
there for the first time, and am like him.
And that detective Wren. who thinks him.
self so smart, searched everywhere for the
old mar and I used to rub by him every
day.
Here All awful smile-a smile full Of cum
ming. and just simply diabolical, came upon
the dying face. Frightened at such smile
at such q time could not speak at once,
but seeing the features with that smile of
low cunning caught upon them. settling
fast into certain death, by-stander said,
"Cluyerius d ID not kill Lillian Madison.
The murderer has been found out" The
words were too late. though-they fell upon
dead ears, and still that horrible smile was
there upon the dead face. He was face
maker, as has been seen. And yet as he
lay there he was like the young and hand
some Cuverius. No wonder hs had passed
to casual observers for Cluverius in his cell
awaiting felon's death, and this man had
brought it all upon him..
Then follows a somewhat sinuous story
of how the narrator, with all these facts in
his possession, fastened here to lay than
before the Governor, bat was prevented by
a series OF accidents, and got here too late
SC, Sc.
The pamphlet is cleverly written and is
in most respects an ingenious web of fanciea
and facts intended to set up theory possi-
bly, consis; ent with the innocence of CID
verias.
''The hotel note" the scratches on the
hand the evidence of Colonel James. who
knew Gu verius and saw him with Lillian
near the American Hotel. the behavior of
the prisoner when arrested, the dsplace-
nent of his charm-chain by prisoner, Jeel's
oositire Identification of the key before the
Governor, and a hundred other facts of that
sort, the author, with the liberty of a novel
st, has omitted.
KEROSENE ExPosIoN.-On Monday night
Miss Ada Napier went to pour some kero-
ssne fIom a can into lighted lamp when
thatin the can ignited and exploded. She
was horribly burned about the hands, arms,
neck and face. The oil exploded with
report like shotgun, attracting the atten-
ion Of the neighbors and persons passing
IN the street. The burns are deep and her
are of course intense. DR.. JEFF
fries, however, does not think there is dan
ger of her losing her eyesight, as had been
,eported. She is about II years of age,
md the only daughter of Alexander Napier,
respected citizen of the CLOVER end. -
Sc0usriUs Courier.
A FLORIST KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-AL-
ron, ILL, February AT Upper Alton
o-day, while William G. Lee, well known
lorist, was eating dinner, a binding flash
# lightning shattered large tree seine
fifty yards from tho house, and Mi. Lee
ell lifeless 70 the faor. His Wits received